ACC Atlantic Coast Conference football to air on WBBZ-TV

by jmaloni

Press release

Wed, Aug 14th 2013 01:30 pm

Bob Koshinski, vice president and
general manager of WBBZ-TV, has announced "Your Hometown Television Station"
will be the exclusive broadcast home for Atlantic Coast Conference sports,
which will include a select number of Syracuse Orange and University at
Pittsburgh men's football games.

"We are very excited to be
bringing ACC football to Western New York," he said. "With the great Syracuse
and Pitt alumni presence in this region, and the number of local athletes who
compete for this elite conference - like St. Joe's own quarterback Chad Kelly
at Clemson, Canisius grad LB James Gaines at Miami, and former St. Francis longsnapper
David Murphy at Pitt - ACC offers tremendous sports programming for our WBBZ-TV
viewers."

A special "ACC Football
Kick-Off Show," with a preview of the upcoming season, will air Saturday Aug. 24, at 2 p.m. on WBBZ-TV

The broadcast schedule of games
begins Saturday, Aug. 31, with Louisiana Tech at NC
State; Saturday, Sept. 7, with Middle Tennessee at North
Carolina; and Saturday, Sept. 14, with New Mexico at
Pittsburgh. ACC College Football will air through Saturday,
Nov. 30, with specific matchups to be announced. All games air live in
HD beginning at noon on WBBZ-TV.

The ACC conference features one of
the richest traditions in all of college sports, as well as 14 football
national championship titles. In 2012, the conference sent six football teams
to participate in bowl games, including one BCS. The ACC finished the 2012 season
with two teams ranked in the Top 10 of the USA Today Coaches Poll: Florida
State (8) and Clemson (9).

Charlotte-based Raycom Sports is the
current syndicated television rights holder of ACC men's basketball and football
telecasts. Raycom is a leading independent sports sales and marketing,
syndication, event management and production firm. In a partnership with the
ACC, Raycom operates the ACC Network, which distributes ACC content through
live television.